On November 6th, Northwestern University introduced a groundbreaking leap in haptic technology, and it’s worth every bit of attention now, even two weeks later. Full details are in their original a…

The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.

Three technologists in India used a homemade Faraday cage and a microwave oven to get around Apple’s location blocks.

Today marks two years since I first set up an e-ink display in my mom’s apartment to help her live on her own with amnesia.

CAD files of my 3D-printed eyeglasses and instructions to order the lenses and mount them - Giraut/3D-printed_eyeglasses

Exoskeletons have been helping paraplegic patients to walk for years, but the latest development from KAIST is a little different. The WalkON Suit F1 can amble over to a patient seated in a wheelchair, wrap itself around the legs and body, and get the user up and walking.

During Disability Employee Awareness month, we call out the medical tech industry for fighting disabled people's right to repair or modify the tech that they own.

When Mats Steen died from a muscle-wasting disorder, his parents believed that his life had been a tragically lonely one — until hundreds of emails from strangers arrived. It turns out that he’d found friendship and even romance in a gaming community

The Faboratory at Yale University has set a number of stretch goals. We don’t mean that in the usual sense. They’ve been making, as you can see in the video below, clones of commercial …

Whether you have full use of your hands or not, a foot-operated keyboard is a great addition to any setup. Of course, it has to be a lot more robust than your average finger-operated keyboard, so b…

Sometimes, simple things can make a world of difference. Take for example a non-verbal person who can’t necessarily control a touch screen in order to tell someone else what they need or want…

There’s no reason why a visually impaired person can’t enjoy putting together a jigsaw puzzle. It just needs to look a little different. Or, in this case, feel different. 16-year-old [f…

There has been many open source speech recognition, TTS, STT and ASR libraries developed in recent years. Here's the top ones among them.

One step closer to Iron Man.

When the entry of a tech giant such as Apple into a market represents its liberation from exploitation, that market must be really broken, yet the reported FDA approval of the hearing aid feature i…

As artificial limbs become more advanced, branding is becoming almost inescapable.

Paralympian and surgeon John McFall is redefining the astronaut image and proving that space travel is achievable for people with physical disabilities

Introduces how people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments, use the Web.

If anyone out there is really, really board, the BBC did a technology and visual impairment retrospective, talking about how tech has changed the lives of blind folk. I feature, talking about the law and AI, at about the 17 minute mark: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0021j0v

Anna Landre got an award for her disability work but was denied the chance to accept it on stage.

The implantable device is as sensitive as today’s best hearing aids

Computer interface links signals from the brain to an artificial limb, giving the wearer better balance, flexibility and speed.

As part of her Grade 12 art activism class, Lexis De Meyer was tasked with investigating accessibility challenges faced by people with disabilities in her community of Abbotsford.

MIT Media Lab Spin-off Augmental has developed the MouthPad, a device that allows users to interact with phones and computers using their tongue and other head gestures.

These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget... inside their bodies.

Firefox 130 is bringing a game-changing feature: automatic alt-text generation for images using a fully private on-device AI model! 🙌🏾 Initially available in the built-in PDF editor, our aim is to extend this to general browsing for screen reader users. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/05/experimen...

Wearable tech like the "Third Thumb" prosthetic extra thumb and AI are redefining human capabilities & blurring the line between human and machine.

Google recklessly violated privacy laws to spike ad profits, lawsuit says.

Smartphones are an integral part of life, but what if you can’t see the screen? There is text-to-speech available, but that’s not always handy and can be slow. It also doesn’t hel…

We placed a handle along the back of the knife blade to allow forearm leverage as opposed to using the wrist. A traditional, wider handle is added to blade to accommodate those needing wider grips. The body of the handle uses a tessellated PLA form to reduce the amount of resin necessary as well as

Why, what and how designers should document accessibility requirements and user interactions to make product better and more inclusive

Accessibility devices are a wonder of modern technology, allowing people with various needs to interact more easily with the world. From prosthetics to devices to augment or aid someone’s vis…

Eye tracking techniques enable high-efficient, natural, and effortless human-machine interaction. Here, Zhu et al. proposed a contact lens to track eye movement for wireless eye-machine interaction